Five Chinese university students killed in dormitory fire sparked by electric scooters


  • TECH
  • Monday, 06 May 2019

Firefighters say 73 people were trapped when blaze broke out at foot of stairwell.

Five university students were killed and 38 others injured by a fire at an apartment block in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Sunday.

Firefighters in the city of Guilin were alerted to the blaze at about 6.50am on Sunday and put out the fire within 20 minutes before finding 73 people trapped.

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